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A topical portal and providers of brain injury rehabilitation services. Resources * Pharmacology Guide * Glossary of Brain Injury Terms * Brain Injury Research Articles * Common Brain Injury Assessment Tools / Rating Scale * Certified Continuing Education Courses * Links to Resource Sites

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RIO-DB (Research Information Database) is a multimedia one concerning various research information which is developed and accumulated through many AIST R&D projects. RIO-DB project aims to contribute to the creation and promotion of new businesses from academic society to industrial community by spreading the research information via internet. This is a portal to many database resources in the following categories: * Standard * Chemistry * Earth sciences * Energy * Biology * Material * Information Technology * Safety

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Atlas of magnetic resonance images and histological sections of a Japanese monkey brain, Rhesus monkey and human. The Brain Explorer allows for display, magnification, and comparison these images. Other formats include a collection of .jpg images, Quicktime VR (allow user to zoom in), and EmonV, a voxel viewer for MacOS X.

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The W. M. Keck Foundation was established in 1954 in Los Angeles by William Myron Keck, founder of The Superior Oil Company. Our Foundation is one of the nation''s largest philanthropic organizations, with assets of more than $1billion. Mr. Keck envisioned a philanthropic institution that would provide far-reaching benefits for humanity. By taking a bold, creative approach to grantmaking, he created a legacy that the Foundation proudly upholds today. In recent years, the Foundation has focused on Science and Engineering Research; Medical Research; Undergraduate Education; and Southern California. Each of our grant programs invests in people and programs that are making a difference in the quality of life, now and for the future. Supporting pioneering discoveries in science, engineering and medical research has been our mandate for a half-century. By funding the work of leading researchers, the establishment of unique laboratories and research centers, and the purchase of sophisticated instruments, we are laying the groundwork for breakthrough discoveries and new technologies that will save lives, provide innovative solutions to complex problems and add immeasurably to our understanding of life on Earth and our place in the universe. We believe that a high-quality, well-rounded college education is vital for tomorrow''s leaders. The Foundation''s undergraduate education program promotes inventive approaches to instruction and effective involvement of students in research at colleges across the nation. Our support of Southern California-based organizations enriching the lives of our region''s residents has expanded and deepened over the years. We place a special emphasis on children, youth and their families, with the goal of providing safe, healthy, supportive environments that prepare children to succeed in school and in life.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 27,2023.Interactive multimedia educational outreach resource promoting awareness and understanding of key microbiological issues to adult and youth audiences, and showcases the significance of microbes in our lives. It is an online community for sharing the latest news, blog posts, videos, podcasts, images, research and resources related to microbiology and the life sciences. Join today and help contribute to the fastest growing networks for science information on the web. The anthrax attacks of 2001 and the ensuing focus on bioterrorism, the potential of viral and bacterial infections for victims of Hurricane Katrina, the emergence of avian flu, and the public''s growing interest in alternative fuel sources have thrust microbes into unprecedented prominence in the headlines. MicrobeWorld informs the public about how science works. The various outreach methods feature the process of discovery, historical changes in research, and a variety of scientific careers in industry, academia, and government. One of the first MicrobeWorld Radio podcasts explained how microbes enter the initially sterile bodies of infants just hours after birth, establishing the microbial communities that stay with them for life. Other topics have included why the overuse of antibiotics is a growing problem, how microbes are key in the making of chocolate, and how microbiologists are on the front line in the war against infectious diseases that threaten human and animal health. Objectives * Leverage emerging communications technologies to promote the science of microbiology to the public and provide educational resources for all levels. * Repurpose the American Society for Microbiology''s resources for the wired generation. * Increase public understanding and appreciation of the vital role microbes play on our planet. * Use new technology to promote ASM''s resources to students, educators and other potential members of the Society. * Establish ASM as a leader in online science content.

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Multidisciplinary collaboration undertaking genome-wide mutagenesis to functionally annotate the mouse genome and develop new mouse models relevant to human disease. To achieve these goals two major research platforms are carried out: Gene trapping and ENU Mutagenesis. A new challenge is faced in the post-genomic era - the assignment of biological function to the human genome sequence and projecting that assignment into understanding of human health and disease. The Centre for Modeling Human Disease (CMHD) was established to take part in the worldwide initiative to address these challenges. At the CMHD, two fundamentally different, yet complimentary methods are employed to generate mutant mouse models of human disease: chemical mutagenesis by ethylnitrosourea (ENU), and gene trap insertional mutagenesis. The Centre contributes its resources to similar international efforts and is the first of its kind in Canada. The Center is also actively developing other mutagenic strategies including pharmacologic and genetic modifier screens to dissect disease pathways, and novel mutagenic techniques using embryonic stem cells. ENU Database * Statistics for Mouse Physiological Parameters * Search Mutants by Phenotype * Search Mutants by Heritability Gene Trap Database * Search by in vitro Expression Pattern * Search by Gene Trap Sequences CMHD Members Only (must register and login) * Search Mouse Line * Histopathology * Sperm, Tissue, Slide Archiving * CMHD Database Download CMHD Services * Phenotyping * Genetic Mapping * Pathology * Pathology Service Charges

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also known as UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, or simply Carolina is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It is the flagship of the 17 campuses of the University of North Carolina system.

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A Python package intended to ease statistical learning analyses of large datasets. It offers an extensible framework with a high-level interface to a broad range of algorithms for classification, regression, feature selection, data import and export. While it is not limited to the neuroimaging domain, it is eminently suited for such datasets. PyMVPA is truly free software (in every respect) and additionally requires nothing but free-software to run. Decoding patterns of neural activity onto cognitive states is one of the central goals of functional brain imaging. Standard univariate fMRI analysis methods, which correlate cognitive and perceptual function with the blood oxygenation-level dependent (BOLD) signal, have proven successful in identifying anatomical regions based on signal increases during cognitive and perceptual tasks. Recently, researchers have begun to explore new multivariate techniques that have proven to be more flexible, more reliable, and more sensitive than standard univariate analysis. Drawing on the field of statistical learning theory, these new classifier-based analysis techniques possess explanatory power that could provide new insights into the functional properties of the brain. However, unlike the wealth of software packages for univariate analyses, there are few packages that facilitate multivariate pattern classification analyses of fMRI data. This Python-based, cross-platform, open-source software toolbox software toolbox for the application of classifier-based analysis techniques to fMRI datasets makes use of Python's ability to access libraries written in a large variety of programming languages and computing environments to interface with the wealth of existing machine learning packages.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 4th,2023. This Week in Microbiology (TWiM) is a new podcast about unseen life on Earth hosted by Vincent Racaniello and friends. Following in the path of his successful shows ''This Week in Virology'' (TWiV) and ''This Week in Parasitism'' (TWiP), Racaniello and guests produce an informal yet informative conversation about microbes which is accessible to everyone, no matter what their science background. As a science Professor at Columbia University, Racaniello has spent his academic career directing a research laboratory focused on viruses. His enthusiasm for teaching inspired him to reach beyond the classroom using new media. TWiM is for everyone who wants to learn about the science of microbiology in a casual way. While there are no exams or pop quizzes, TWiM does encourage interaction with the audience via comments on specific episodes, via email and voicemail at 908-312-0760. Listeners can also use MicrobeWorld to suggest topics for the show by submitting articles or papers to the site and tagging them with TWiM. Each week Racaniello will view the tagged content and select items for discussion. Co-hosts on TWiM include Ronald Atlas, Jo Handelsman, Margaret McFall-Ngai, Stanley Maloy, Elio Schaechter, and Michael Schmidt. Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.

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This Week in Virology (TWiV) is a podcast - or netcast, as some prefer to call them, since you don''t need an iPod to listen - about viruses - the kind that make you sick. Professors Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit and science writer Alan Dove and guests deconstruct viruses, how they cause illness, and how you can prevent infections. It was begun in September 2008 by Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier, two science Professors at Columbia University Medical Center. Their goal was to have an informal yet informative conversation about viruses which would be accessible to everyone, no matter what their science background. We wanted to eventually bring other virologists into the conversation, to make it more varied and interesting. Alan Dove, a science writer, joined us late in 2008; Rich Condit, a poxvirologist, joined in 2009, and Kathy Spindler, an adenovirologist, joined in 2012. We''ve had quite a few guests on the show and we''re always trying to get more. Transcripts A few readers have been kind enough to produce transcripts for several TWiV episodes.

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Web Platform Docs is a new community-driven site that aims to become a comprehensive and authoritative source for web developer documentation. Anyone can contribute and each person who does makes us stronger. Together we can continue to drive innovation on the Web to serve the greater good. WebPlatform project, supported by various stewards between 2012 and 2015, has been discontinued. Static archived version of github is available.

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An ontology for sequence annotations and how to preserve them with reference sequences.

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Service that helps users navigate the research journey, connecting people and information from dissertations to governmental and cultural archives to news, in all its forms. Its role is essential to libraries and other organizations whose missions depend on the delivery of complete, trustworthy information. ProQuest''s massive information pool, built through partnerships with content creators, is navigated through technological innovations that enable users to quickly find just the right information. The ProQuest platform moves beyond navigation to empower researchers to use, create, and share contentaccelerating research productivity. The Summon web-scale discovery service is a boon to academic libraries worldwide. ProQuest expanded into corporate and government markets, with the ProQuest Dialog service and acquiring Congressional Information Services and University Publications of America. It acquired ebrary, expanding ProQuest''s content base to include e-books and adding to the technology expertise resident across the enterprise, which also includes such units as Serials Solutions, RefWorks-COS, and Bowker.

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The John Templeton Foundation serves as a philanthropic catalyst for discoveries relating to the Big Questions of human purpose and ultimate reality. We support research on subjects ranging from complexity, evolution, and infinity to creativity, forgiveness, love, and free will. We encourage civil, informed dialogue among scientists, philosophers, and theologians and between such experts and the public at large, for the purposes of definitional clarity and new insights. Our vision is derived from the late Sir John Templeton''s optimism about the possibility of acquiring new spiritual information and from his commitment to rigorous scientific research and related scholarship. The Foundation''s motto, How little we know, how eager to learn, exemplifies our support for open-minded inquiry and our hope for advancing human progress through breakthrough discoveries. Our Core Funding Areas cover the full range of the Foundation''s activities and grantmaking. Science and the Big Questions is the largest of these Core Funding Areas and is further divided into several subfields. The descriptions and illustrative grants attached to the Core Funding Areas are not meant to be exhaustive, but they should give potential applicants a general understanding of the sorts of activities that the Foundation does and does not fund. Core Funding Areas: * Science and the Big Questions ** Mathematical and Physical Sciences ** Life Sciences ** Human Sciences ** Philosophy and Theology ** Science in Dialogue * Character Development * Freedom and Free Enterprise * Exceptional Cognitive Talent and Genius * Genetics

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XSEDE is a single virtual system that scientists can use to interactively share computing resources, data and expertise. People around the world use these resources and services things like supercomputers, collections of data and new tools to improve our planet. XSEDE resources may be broadly categorized as follows: High Performance Computing, High Throughput Computing, Visualization, Storage, and Data Services. Many resources provide overlapping functionality across categories. Scientists, engineers, social scientists, and humanists around the world - many of them at colleges and universities - use advanced digital resources and services every day. Things like supercomputers, collections of data, and new tools are critical to the success of those researchers, who use them to make our lives healthier, safer, and better. XSEDE integrates these resources and services, makes them easier to use, and helps more people use them. XSEDE supports 16 supercomputers and high-end visualization and data analysis resources across the country. Digital services, meanwhile, provide users with seamless integration to NSF''s high-performance computing and data resources. XSEDE''s integrated, comprehensive suite of advanced digital services will federate with other high-end facilities and with campus-based resources, serving as the foundation for a national cyberinfrastructure ecosystem. Common authentication and trust mechanisms, global namespace and filesystems, remote job submission and monitoring, and file transfer services are examples of XSEDE''s advanced digital services. XSEDE''s standards-based architecture allows open development for future digital services and enhancements. XSEDE also provides the expertise to ensure that researchers can make the most of the supercomputers and tools.

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Software toolbox to facilitate quick and easy import, visualization and measurement for Event Related Potential (ERP) data. The toolbox can open and visualise ERP averaged data (Neuroscan, ascii formats), 2D/3D electrode coordinates and 3D cerebral tissue tesselations (meshes). All the features can be explored quickly and easily using the example data provided in the toolbox. The GUI interface is simple and intuitive.

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MIALAB, headed by Dr. Vince Calhoun, focuses on developing and optimizing methods and software for quantitative analysis of structure and function in medical images with particular focus on the study of psychiatric illness. We work with many types of data, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), electroencephalography (EEG), structural imaging and genetic data. Much of our time is spent working on new methods for flexible analysis of brain imaging data. The use of data driven approaches is very useful for extracting potentially unpredictable patterns within these data. However such methods can be further improved by incorporating additional prior information as constraints, in order to benefit from what we know. To this end, we draw heavily from the areas of image processing, adaptive signal processing, estimation theory, neural networks, statistical signal processing, and pattern recognition.

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The Hereditary Disease Foundation (HDF) aims to cure genetic illness by supporting basic biomedical research. The HDF was started by Dr. Milton Wexler in 1968 when his wife was diagnosed with Huntington''s disease (HD). The Foundation uses a variety of strategies - workshops, grants, fellowships, and targeted research contracts - to solve the mysteries of genetic disease and develop new treatments and cures. Huntington''s disease is a fatal, dominantly inherited, genetic, neurological disorder causing involuntary movements, severe emotional disturbance and progressive cognitive loss over ten to twenty years. Each child of an affected parent has a 50% risk of inheriting HD, usually in the third or fourth decade of life, though children as young as two years and adults in their eighties may also develop symptoms. The Hereditary Disease Foundation uses Huntington''s disease as a model for hereditary disease research because it is triggered by a mutation of one single gene. Progress toward treatment or a cure could be instrumental in finding ways to treat other illnesses with more complex genetics, including Parkinson''s, Alzheimer''s, Lou Gehrig''s disease (ALS), depression, schizophrenia, and cancer. The Hereditary Disease Foundation has given over $50 million to support pioneering research in genetics, gene therapy, molecular and cell biology, cell survival and death, animal models, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology and other areas relevant to understanding inherited diseases. * Milton Wexler Workshop Program: A centerpiece of the Foundation is the interdisciplinary Workshop Program which sponsors Workshops held many times during the year. Milton Wexler began the Program to bring scientists together from different academic disciplines to brainstorm - without prepared lectures or slides - and explore new directions for research. They often share unpublished data. * Funding Opportunities ** The Basic Research Grants Program supports projects that contribute to identifying and understanding the fundamental defects in Huntington''s disease and related disorders. ** The John J. Wasmuth Postdoctoral Fellowships are named in honor of the late John Jacob Wasmuth, an essential member of the Huntington''s Disease Collaborative Research Group. Our hope is that those granted fellowships bearing his name will seek John''s level of imagination, rigor, creativity and spirit. ** The Lieberman Award is presented annually to a worthy scientist, thanks to the generosity of Harry Lieberman, a trustee of the Hereditary Disease Foundation. ** The Milton Wexler Postdoctoral Fellowship Award is named after the founder of the Hereditary Disease Foundation. The Hereditary Disease Foundation restricts this annual award to research highly relevant to curing Huntington''s disease. * Giving to the Hereditary Disease Foundation - Donations are accepted by check, credit card, etc.

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A primary clinical trial registry which houses proposed, ongoing, and completed clinical research studies. An ISRCTN is a simple numeric system for the unique identification of randomized controlled trials worldwide. The registry provides content validation and curation and the unique identification number necessary for publication. Submitted studies range from cancer to urological diseases.

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